{"id":358382,"date":"2026-04-01T09:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358382\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:58:19","slug":"he-man-gets-an-origin-story-in-masters-of-the-universe-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358382\/","title":{"rendered":"He-Man gets an origin story in Masters of the Universe trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first trailer dropped in January and gave us He-Man\u2019s origin story. When he was 10 years old, Adam Glenn, prince of Eternia and our future He-Man, crash-landed on Earth\u2014the home planet of his ex-astronaut mother, Queen Marlena, who sent him there for protection from the forces of Skeletor. The now-grown Adam is an office drone with a penchant for nerd culture who has been searching online for his magic sword, convinced it will show him \u201cthe way home\u201d so that he can finally confront Skeletor.<\/p>\n<p>This latest trailer opens with Adam being put in an otherworldly prison and telling his fellow prisoners that, while they likely don\u2019t remember him, he knows all of them. He reunites with Man-at-Arms and Teela, as well as with the talking tiger, Cringer (who can transform into Battlecat).<\/p>\n<p>Eternia has changed drastically in Adam\u2019s absence, and he\u2019s up against Skeletor\u2019s formidable forces to save his home world\u2014but he\u2019ll need that magic sword to succeed. Man-at-Arms, who apparently knows something about failure, urges Adam to \u201ctake the sword, and when you fall, that\u2019s your chance to stand tall.\u201d Adam raises the sword and becomes He-Man. Once he fully masters that power, Skeletor just might be history.<\/p>\n<p>Masters of the Universe hits theaters on June 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first trailer dropped in January and gave us He-Man\u2019s origin story. When he was 10 years old,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-358382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}